Sharing her views with the world

The children of the ’60s and ’70s rebels are growing up, and many do not like the Brave New World their parents’ generation has foisted on them. They are our future hope.

“Young men are fitter to invent than to judge,” said Francis Bacon, “fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.” In a world of “settled business” largely run by corrupt old men, where the status quo is at a premium in money as in politics, it is easy to lose sight of the value of youth, with its freshness, its optimism, and its innocent ambitions. Youth is the time when dreams are forged and nurtured, when newly minted minds struggle to make sense of the way things are, and dare to dream of how to make them better.

On those odd occasions when the stream of history is diverted, it is usually youth that dig the new channel. Jesus of Nazareth was 30 when he began his brief ministry that ended under the iron heel of the Judaeo-Roman state, but transformed human civilization forever. Most of his apostolic followers were also young men, able to abide then-revolutionary doctrines and to endure the physical hardships of missionary labor and persecution. Siddartha Gautama, who would become the Buddha, was roughly the same age when he grew dissatisfied with a life of princely dissipation, and sought enlightenment through austerity. Most religious reformers, heretics, and innovators throughout history have been young, restless souls dissatisfied with religious establishments that they regarded as ossified or otherwise in need of reform.Continue reading →

Thought for the week

This is a time of great changes and of great unveilings for all of us. Sometimes the greatest revelation is not the one going on outside of us, but what is going on inside our own psyche.

This is the time for all of us to look at our lives and see ourselves as being connected to all things, living and not-living, and see how we each impact everyone and everything.

The creator or creative force is one of simply ‘love’. It is not just a word, or an emotion, but a real force that holds everything together. When a person has hate, fear or any negative emotion in their own being, then that is what separates us from our ‘source’ and causes disharmony in our own bodies. It is indeed a time of challenges, a time in which we are being asked to wake up to what is and has been going on around us, to take action of some kind, but not to let our own selves become taken over by that hate or fear, or vengeance because that poisons us. Many great teachers throughout time have tried to teach us to forgive, to love, to turn the other cheek and not to judge others. That is very hard to do when we see horrific acts being enforced on us, our friends and families, and in other countries, even by our own governments. But if we become that which we see, then ‘they’ have won haven’t they?

We have great heroes of today and great heroines, most of whom none of us will ever hear about and know what they have done out of love or concern for the earth, or the beings of the earth, but there are many.